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After reading about Rudd W. Coffey's homeless exploits, I ran right out and borrowed a wheelchair from University Health Services and sat in it for about two hours. It was a demeaning experience. First of all, it's almost impossible to get around in all this snow and people wouldn't help me; they looked right through me as if I weren't there. Plus, it's impossible to eat lunch at Quincy House--too many stairs. I had to get out and walk up them. I learned from the humiliation I had to go through, the loss...

Author: By Adam P. Weisman, | Title: Humiliation Education | 1/21/1994 | See Source »

...These are the times that try men's souls." Four snowfalls in over a week would be trying anywhere, but nowhere more so than in Cambridge, Mass. Snow here is especially difficult, due to the cavalier disregard with which it is treated by the authorities of our stalwart burgh. I mean, of course, the fact that it simply isn't plowed here. It seems that here they leave snow clearance to the melting action of the tire pressure of those unfortunates still driving on the treacherous by-ways, so that the streets look like Pompeii with its well-preserved wagon...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Speed the Plow | 1/21/1994 | See Source »

Professor Emeritus John Snow spoke of his several encounters with King. Snow introduced King at Christ Church in Cambridge, where he announced his opposition to the Vietnam...

Author: By Sandhya R. Rao, | Title: King Honored at Student Breakfast | 1/19/1994 | See Source »

...survivalist nation," Snow said. "King was someone who thought [the survival of freedom for Black Americans] was a great deal more important than his own survival...

Author: By Sandhya R. Rao, | Title: King Honored at Student Breakfast | 1/19/1994 | See Source »

...Snow also related an incident when he and eight other priests were sitting in the rear of an airplane that King was on. When King walked by the priests he said to them jokingly, "Now you know what it's like to be in the back...

Author: By Sandhya R. Rao, | Title: King Honored at Student Breakfast | 1/19/1994 | See Source »

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